Number of plays and last played date

In the current version of iTunes, it no longer seems to update the number of plays for a song or the last played date. (Actually, it does update the date intermittently, but for the most part that feature is no lomger working.) Anyone know how to fix either of these problems?

Do you have crossfade turned on? Several people have reported that it breaks play count updating.

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Two things:
The song has to be played until the track finishes. If you move to the next song, with one second remaining on the current one, the Play Count will not be updated.
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It looks like a lot of people have had trouble with play counts not updating with crossfade turned on. I've never used crossfade, so this doesn't bother me. However, I do have a plethora of very short tracks in my library (owing to there being many video game soundtracks with short fanfares as tracks), and I've noticed that when playing any song that's 10 seconds or less, it will show up in the "History" tab of "Up Next", but "Plays" and "Last Played" remain the same. Any other song in my library, whether it's 11 seconds long like "Got a Star Piece (part 1)" from "Super Mario RPG" by Yoko Shimomura or 11 minutes long like "I Am" from "As the World Bleeds" by Theocracy, will update its play count properly when played. Why is 10 seconds enough time to play a song and add it to my history, but not enough time to update when I last played it and make it appear in the smart playlist of recently played songs? Is iTunes 11 so obsessed with 11 that if a song isn't 11 seconds long, it doesn't consider it to be worth tracking?

I am having this exact same issue in iTunes 11 running on OSX 10.6.8.
Short tracks (less than 10sec) do not update their metadata to increase the play count. However if I play a short track on my iPod or iPhone and then sync with iTunes the play count and last played info is updated.
This really messes up my smart playlists that use playcount limiters.
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I listened to some other songs last night on my main Mac so it is easy to determine which songs iTunes updated this morning.
I haven't had much time to play with Match. It is still updating and uploading, it has 6000 songs to go. That means in a half month of trying it has managed to find and/or upload a little over 1000 songs actually close to 2000 now. It is something, but it isn't the service I was sold. All my songs and playlists were supposed to be available in the cloud. That hasn't happened and in the case of my smart playlists will never happen.
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From other threads (https://discussions.apple.com/message/16563011#16563011 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/16505730#16505730 for example) it is clear that there are some problems with play count, last played, and rating information updating and syncing under iOS 5. I have at least a partial solution. I am posting it here instead of under one of the existing threads because 1) some discussions seem to be confusing the difference between updating the iOS 5 device data and syncing the updated data to the computer, and 2) some of the discussions are focused iPhone, and though the problem appears similar I only have an iPod touch to test the solution on.
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Here's the trick: Manually manage must be in effect before you connect the iPod to the computer. After your iPod shows up in the iTunes interface on your computer, in the main view (where it shows the different tabs at the top and capacity at the bottom) there is a Sync button at the very bottom right. Click on this and wait for it to go through the Sync steps (don't worry, you're not losing anything), and, voila, when you go to the songs (on the iPod) you have listened to since the last time you connected to the computer, the play count and last played data will be there.
Unfortunately, it's not a simple matter to get this data synced to the computer, but it can be done. At first I thought that once I got the data to show up on the iPod I could go to the Music tab and Sync Music to get the playlist data to the computer, but this does not work. It will sync the play count and last played data that are on the computer to the iPod, overriding the newer data. The way I have been getting my playlist data from my iPod to my computer without ever changing the Manually manage setting is by using the Copy Tag Info Tracks To Tracks script from Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes <http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=copytinforackstotracks>. This isn't hard to download or install or use and copies playlist information very quickly.
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Just for posterity in case anyone else ever has a similar problem.
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I know Apple support would likely blame my Shuffle for the problem (it's over 6 years old now). But it's funny how this only happened right after I installed 11.0. The update to 11.0.2 did nothing.

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I am having this exact same issue in iTunes 11 running on OSX 10.6.8.
Short tracks (less than 10sec) do not update their metadata to increase the play count. However if I play a short track on my iPod or iPhone and then sync with iTunes the play count and last played info is updated.
This really messes up my smart playlists that use playcount limiters.
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I'll explain why. As you know, it's extremely difficult to use the iPod---since there's no directory structure, it's hard to find anything. I can sort of get around this by creating playlists for each artist. It's still impossible to see what albums are what without playing something, but at least it's workable. After I listen to something, I like to delete it to make room for more. Again, this is a simple function that iTunes/iPod makes very difficult. My workaround has been to mark the last track I listen to in a playlist with a rating (I find the ratings feature otherwise useless). That way, when I connect to iTunes, I can find which tracks I've listened to and delete them. Now that ratings sometimes disappear, the iPod has gone from almost impossible to use to completely frustrating. What is the solution?

"If nothing is tagged correctly, then you are correct. Otherwise, it's very easy to find any track by Artist, Album, Genre or song name."
If everything is tagged correctly (which is true of 99% of my collection), it's still very difficult to find anything on an iPod, for the reasons I explained above. I'll give you an example. Starting with a perfectly tagged collection of J.S. Bach's complete works, how do I find BWV 972? You would have me go to Artists ->. Then I have to scroll through a few hundred, not to find "Bach, Johann Sebastian", but to find "Johann...". Fine, once there, I have about 1000 "Albums" for my scrolling pleasure. Where is it? On my hard drive, it's in its place between 971 and 973 (exactly where I would want it to play). Not on the iPod. On the iPod, it's in the order that the iPod chooses. Should I look under Harpsichord Concertos or under Concertos for harpsichord? More scrolling. Ahhh---but no amount of scrolling will do any good. Only the first few characters of the title are displayed, and catalog numbers are at the ends. It's one of many "Harpsichord Conce...". The designers didn't even think about wrapping lines---that's how bad it is. No doubt you've noticed by now that 972 can't be found even if you try each one, one-by-one. It's a transcription, so the iPod considers it a different "artist". The situation is the same for pop albums, or any other genre. I want to hear them in chronological order? Impossible! iPod/iTunes can't even read well-formed year tags. It's 2009 and it can't do what a hundred freeware/shareware programs have been doing for years.
The whole system is a bad first draft, and will remain that way, since there's no incentive for Apple to design a workable system. That's not my point though. That's not my question. I've developed a cumbersome work-around that depends on iTunes seeing the ratings I record on the iPod. Now that iTunes has decided to erase these sometimes, intermittently, for no reason, I need to know how to make it not do that. I need to know how to ensure that iTunes sees the little ratings stars that I've set on the iPod.
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Updating all the songs is impossible,
But you want to update the same songs over and over?
i have more than 30gb on my pc, and also i dont like carrying some unnessesary song with me all the time.
So don't put all the songs on your iPod.
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Can you put things back the way they were before you moved them to the external? If you can, then you can easily move it to the external by copying the entire iTunes folder to the external and opening from the new location using these instructions...
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